Creative Photography Retreat – Dallas

Creative Photography Retreat (CPR) is a new Creating Keepsakes event that teaches attendees to apply professional photography techniques to the art of scrapbooking. CPR is coming to Dallas, Texas July 23-25, 2009. Hosted by your favorite photography and scrapbooking professionals (think Jessica Sprague and Tiffany Tillman), you’ll experience two full days of “exposure” to top techniques for capturing everyday moments, creating priceless portraits, and making your photographs even better than ever.

Available courses include:

Think. Create. Record – Photojournalism
The Sweet Life – Children’s Portraiture
Up Close and Oh So Personal – Capturing Detail
Photo Editing Secrets – Photo Editing
Minimalist Lighting – Flash Photography
Keep it Real – Weddings
The Great Photo Finish – Photo Finishing
Writing the Right Light – Natural Light

You can register now online. Tuition is $395 and covers classes and activities plus lunch on Friday and Saturday.

July 23-25, 2009
Marriott Dallas/Addison by the Quorum
14901 Dallas Parkway
Dallas, TX 75254

You’ll leave Creative Photography Retreat with the tools, skills and inspiration to expand your creativity in photography and your art of scrapbooking!

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It starts at the beginning with information on where seeds come from, how pollination happens and different creatures (and mechanisms like wind) that help move tree seeds and other seeds around in different forests. It talks about photosynthesis, how trees communicate with each other, tree rings, layers of the forest, how tree seeds move and how fungi and trees help each other.

Readers will learn about the oldest known fungus in the world, how ants help other animals to reproduce and what plant and animal parasites make trouble in the forest.

The book also covers decomposition, an overview of forest types from around the world (including the heaviest living organism), how fire affects forests, animals of the rainforest and swamp and ways people use wood.

Information is presented in bite-sized segments, with cartoony illustrations that are somewhat accurate to nature. You can check out some of the pages and watch a flip through on the publisher’s website.

It also includes forest experiments kids can try, such as building bird houses, looking for springs and checking ingredients on snack foods for palm oil, which comes from the rainforest. There’s also information on the best way to visit the forest to be respectful of the organisms that live there.

In the back you’ll find a glossary of some of the important words included in the book, and there’s a QR code teachers or parents can scan to get more information or learning resources.

This book provides a nice overview of life in the forest and how the plants and animals work together to keep it growing the way it needs to. It also covers a little bit of what humans can do to protect the forests we have left.

About the book: 64 pages, hardcover. Published 2024 by Albatross Books. Suggested retail price $18.95

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